National Qualification Framework and Competency Standards : Skills Promotion and Job Creation in East Asia and Pacific
The World Bank’s East Asia-Pacific region received a trust fund from the Korean government to promote skills development and job creation in the region including in Cambodia, China, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Lao PDR, Malaysia, Mongolia, Myanmar,Phil...
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2017
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/580761508757032462/National-qualification-framework-and-competency-standards-skills-promotion-and-job-creation-in-East-Asia-and-Pacific http://hdl.handle.net/10986/28605 |
| Summary: | The World Bank’s East Asia-Pacific
region received a trust fund from the Korean government to
promote skills development and job creation in the region
including in Cambodia, China, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Lao
PDR, Malaysia, Mongolia, Myanmar,Philippines, Singapore,
Thailand, and Vietnam over a period of three years, starting
in June2014. The three-year grant program has a broad
objective to promote effective policies and programs in
skills development and job creation. It aims to: 1) Develop
a knowledge base on skills supply, demand and systems by
conductinganalytical work with innovative methodological
approaches; 2) Provide a forum on National Competency
Standards as well as National and RegionalQualifications
Frameworks within ASEAN+3 countries; and 3) Promote
dissemination and learning exchanges on promising policies
and programs inskills development and job creation within
and beyond the East Asia-Pacific region,including examples
of best practices.Specifically, in Component (2) of the
program it was identified that there is aneed to take stock
of the current country level progress and challenges with
regard to development of national competency standards and
national qualifications frameworks (NQF). Further, there is
a need to understand the various types of standards
currently being used in different countries and their
definitions, comparability, and the process and stakeholders
involved in the development of such standards. Finally, it
is important toevaluate to what extent they truly reflect
the requirements of today and tomorrow’s labour market
demands.This synthesis report brings together research
undertaken in 12 participating EAP countries (Cambodia,
China, Indonesia, Korea, Lao PDR, Malaysia, Mongolia,
Myanmar, Philippines,Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam) who
responded to a survey related to national qualifications
systems, including the barriers and issues facing
implementation of quality assurance strategies such as NQF
development, existence and implementation. |
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